Album Recommendation: WOOZE by WOOZE (2025)

An obsession with riding the line of blown-out guitars (ala Sleigh Bells and Jai Paul) combined with a love of disco and 80’s synth-pop coalesces into this absolute blast of a record from London’s WOOZE. I spent some time trying to figure out which track to feature for a single recommendation but I think it really takes a couple songs to wrap your head around all the toys that WOOZE have pulled out of the music production box and are bashing together like so many plastic dinosaurs, wooden blocks and stuffed animals. Opener “Sabre Tooth Spider” features power chords that sound 10 miles high and a nearly Brad Roberts-deep backing vocal as it slams through its blazing fast 3 minute run time. With lyrics like “I wanna be your sugar daddy, but you call me daddy of the long-legs variety,” and “haven’t I been the bane of sobriety? We should get together and do Dry January!” I’m not exactly sure what the song is supposed to be “about,” but with this much energy, who cares? Then, if you’re short on time and don’t want to just keep listening to the whole album, skip forward to “Was Father Present” which sounds like an honest-to-god forgotten b-side from Trent Reznor’s collaboration with David Bowie back with 1997’s classic “I’m Afraid of Americans.”

So, go ahead, take a spin and get WOOZEY.